@BBCRD I'm also paying attention to your comment about moderation (I'm involved in various groups tackling moderation and trust & safety on the fediverse)
@BBCRD Excellent! I’m looking forward to a future where every news organization, company and NGO has its own federated social media so companies like XTwitter can’t dictate who they can communicate with.
Welcome. You must be inundated right now, but one really important #recommendation if you want this #experiment to be maximally successful.
Use hashtags!
Right now the Fediverse is searchable by #hashtag, so think of hashtags as indexes to your content. Getting into the discipline of including hashtags in the body is good. Also, add topical hashtags at the bottom.
@BBCRD Just realised that your six-month experiment here overlaps perfectly with Stricty Come Dancing. Coincidence, or are you ballroom fans? Will we see them on Mastodon?
@BBCRD perhaps you can take a look at your policy of not allowing #innovative makers access to your radio streams? Which is why I had to build my Dad an #alzheimers Radio using an FM tuner instead of WiFi.
@BBCRD
Congratulations!!
Mastodon has been around for a long time now, constantly proving that surveillance platforms are garbage platforms.
Good of you to catch up and start exploring this as an alternative to continuing to prop-up surveillance platforms like you are doing right now.
"Cutting Edge" indeed.
@BBCRD Welcome o the Fediverse. Thanks for joining us where there are people whose access to other forms of social media is limited. Hope this will be the forerunner of a full BBC adoption!
The most successful news agencies and newspeople on the Fediverse do more than just post news and leave it. They engage their audience.
If you want this to be a successful experiment, you can't use Mastodon like Twitter. It doesn't work well as a distribution network. It works best as a true social network.
@BBCRD why are you researching how everyone could get tv and radio via the internet? That seems to have been solved, but also... Does that mean the end of broadcast radio and TV?
@BBCRD Hi - I met some wonderful folks from BBC at RightsCon and talked about mirroring / publishing on the I2P network! Would love to follow up with a longer conversation about the challenges / benefits / solutions for publishing to p2p based networks that are helping people access news in censored regions.
@BBCRD Can you please research use of RSS for podcasts? worked fine for years & now bbc put topical content only on sounds for 28d as part of a “trial”. ridiculous. can understand timeless content being delayed but when radio 4 comedy is joking about news events that are a month old it makes it pointless. The sounds app is objectively worse in every way to a real podcast player. You show ads saying the “bbc belongs to all of us” yet treat license payers with contempt.
We do all of this to bring audiences new, immersive and accessible experiences.
We also look at how technology can help the production process. We prototype and test new tools, create datasets, open-source our work, work with partners in the industry and publish our research so that everyone can benefit.
Find out more about all of this on our website: www.bbc.co.uk/rd
We’re now exploring Mastodon, so please follow us - we’ll update you with what we are working on in our labs.
@BBCRD honestly, what I want is for BBC Sounds to go away. I've already paid for the content once via license fee & taxation, paying again by letting the BBC index my listening habits via Sounds isn't something I'm interested in agreeing to.
Good to see the BBC here.
It would also be good if, as a public service that doesn't advertise particular commercial products/services, you stopped posting on Twitter and similar - or at least stopped promoting them via links, etc.
@BBCRD welcome to Mastodon! Now that you here, a little reminder that your instance can and will be defederated should you decide to follow BBC editorial guidelines and promote far-right and transphobic views under a twisted interpretation of impartiality, thanks and welcome again!
heads up: posting here hasn't been called TOOT'ing ever since lead Mastodon developer Grargrorn determined anything remotely fun or endearing must be scrubbed from the product.
consider as an alternative to those trumpet emojis, you could instead end that post with two 📰 emojis and say "Publish Publish!" everyone would like that very much.
@jackdaw_ruiz@BBCRD
Welcome to fediverse, BBC. We hope this is a sign that BBC are ready to embrace narratives around ethics of decentralised and federated systems even if they use some electricity.
When you say "#openSource, so everyone benefits" would that mean FOSS? If so you may be able to have apps listed in #FDroid and other places good software is found.
@BBCRD Awesome! So I recognize I'm just yelling into the abyss right now, but what the people want is a 24 hour live feed of life from the perspective of a random stray cat. Multiple stray cats. You can call it BBC-C1, C2, etc. All the political bullshit, honestly everyone is tired of it. Give us some premium cat content.
@BBCRD good to see the BBC on here ( and props for doing the right thing and hosting your own instance ). Good to have more proper verified non profit news sources on the Fediverse
@BBCRD I welcome the experiment but if you publish any more stories like the one where you interviewed a rapist who said that trans women were the real rapists, expect to have your servers blocked by most of the fediverse. Just a warning!
@BBCRD Glad to see that you've found the edit-button. 😉
It irritates me a bit that broadcast stations consistently use Mastodon instead of software with BBCode-support and no 500 character-restriction like Soapbox, Friendica or Firefish. Hope it doesn't end up in 2/n-threads which are barely readable in the Fediverse outside of Mastodon.
Anyway, nice to meet you. I'll stay in the corner and wait for kid no. 6. 📻
First, my instance couldn’t find your account/homepage except as a webpage. That seemed to resolve without intervention over a few days.
Then I attempted to [follow]: searched for the home page, found; tapping the [follow] button resulted in [following]. Yet I see no posts in my t/l. Upon checking I now see [requested] on the account’s home page follow button.
Any thoughts for an explanation?
Do you need to confirm follows?
Welcome to the World Wide Fediverse
I've been around since 2016 Boy have things changed Should I thank Musk for that LoL A lot more instances and variety with forks and alternate projects like FireFish, Pelorma, and such plus many more ActivityPub Federated platform services like Peertube, Funkwhale, Pixelfed, and many more
I'm really liking the new kid on the block, Lemmy
Good luck with the experiment
I hope it leads to looking at other parts of the Fediverse
@BBCRD
Well since the BBC shut off its internet streaming service for Radio (in favour of the Sounds site), that broke my internet radio app on my phone. Keeping services going is a good way to keep users on board
@BBCRD So awesome! Would be excellent to see (some time in the future) any public over-time stats of the #fediverse from your perspective, ie fediverse growth, countries, platforms, some sort of clusters by "topic" of other servers directly connected to yours, etc! #MakeInternetDistributedAgain : P
@BBCRD Hail and well met! What you are doing here is nothing short of revolutionary. Please do whatever you can to help other organizations make the leap into the Fediverse. We need to move past the era of oligarch social media, and you are at the vanguard.
I still remember the experiments with streaming - of #radio content - back when I was at university, and how far advanced the BBC was in that technology (the original #iPlayer!)
I'm looking forward to seeing how this #experiment pans out and hope to learn from it in ways that are useful to #academics and #scientists - good luck!
@BBCRD Welcome. It would be great to see lots of links to papers, project descriptions etc.
I’m of a vintage where I can remember my dad building speaker cabinets so he could listen to Third Service stereo experiments…
And promoting Fediverse to other branches of your organization important too.
🎉
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